There is an alternative to mingetty, named bootshell, by Mike Kershaw of Marist College. It was intended for use on Linux/390 systems running on VM, but there's no reason why it couldn't be used in an LPAR. I know on my VM systems where I use it, I still get some console messages.
The only problem is, the machine where the source for bootshell lives is no longer serving up web pages. I've asked Mike for a new pointer, but haven't gotten an answer yet. There is no analog to virtual consoles in Linux/390. Mark Post -----Original Message----- From: Tzafrir Cohen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, January 12, 2003 5:10 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: mingetty and console output Hi I have an init script that writes output to the console (I've ruled out redirecting its output to a file or to network syslog for various reasons) The trouble is that as soon as mingetty starts, I can no longer see the output of that script. I currently decided to disable the mingetty on the console and hope that the machine in question will be available through telnet/rsh/ssh . Any better ideas? (BTW: is there anything like virtual consoles)? Distro: SuSE SLES 7. -- Tzafrir Cohen mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir
